SOC212H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Vineland Training School, Henry Hardy, Intelligence Quotient
15 Apr 2015
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Chapter 5: biological and physiological explanations of deviance. Table 5. 1 comparison of classical and positivist schools. Mendel studied plant seeds and discovered genetic principles whereby variations of colour and size are transmitted by heredity through predictable mutations and combinations of genes. Idea that criminality was not only inborn but also marked a person"s appearance was common in antiquity. The newly emerging criminal anthropology promised the possibility of using physical features to identify actual and potential criminals. Physiognomy, the science of judging character on basis of facial features: contributed little to development of deviance studies, because entirely based on appeals to commonsense understanding. Brain defects might be the product of heredity, environment, or disease, or even consequence of upbringing, since the practice of certain kinds of behaviour might influence the organization of the normal brain and throw it out of balance. Caraniometry was a system of classifying human types on basis of skull measurement, particularly measurement of its size.
